RULES pragmas
Simon Marlow
simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 10:07:31 EDT 2006
Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Malcolm Wallace <Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>Ah, thank you. The missing (and undocumented) option.
>
>
> Actually, now I came to submit a patch to the manual, I discover that it
> /is/ documented, but at the beginning of section 7. (But on the index
> page on the web, the link to section 7 is two whole screenfuls away from
> the link to 7.10, so it is no wonder I didn't think to look there
> first.)
>
> Maybe there are other subsections of 7 that could usefully gain a
> similar pointer to the need for -fglasgow-exts? For instance, are other
> pragmas (INCLUDE, INLINE, UNPACK) only activated by -fglasgow-exts?
I believe RULES is the only pragma that requires -fglasgow-exts, the reason
being that the syntax inside RULES uses the 'forall' keyword, which is only
enabled by -fglasgow-exts.
If you could submit a doc patch, that would be great.
Cheers,
Simon
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